Shoulder pad



S. SCHWARTZ snowman PAD Filed March 14, 1947 may Patented Apr. 20, 1948UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHOULDER PAD Soll Schwartz, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application March 14, 1947, Serial No. 734,655

This invention relates to shoulder pads and more particularly to thewire reinforcing structure therein.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a wire reinforcingstructure which is of triangular shape and which has a bracing stripextended between two sides of the frame and the bracing strip and whichhas the third side of the frame arched to any desired shape.

Other objects of the present invention are to provide a shoulder padwhich is of simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, andefficierit in operation.

According to the present invention, a wire frame is provided which is oftriangular shape and there is disposed on this wire frame, between twosides thereof, a bracing strip; The bracing strip and the third side ofthe frame can be bent to shape the shoulder pad to the shoulder. Theframe is covered with padding and an outer covering. A seam binding isextended around two sides of the covering. The frame can be formed byfolding a single piece of wire and joining the ends at one corner of thetriangle. The joined ends can be secured together by solder and the endsof the bracing strip can be secured to the sides of the frame by solder.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the Objects andadvantages thereof, reference will be had to the following descriptionand accompanying drawing, and to the appended claims in which thevarious novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawing forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the shoulder pad showing in dotted linesthe frame embodying the features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the shoulder pad.

Fig, 3 is a transverse cross sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2looking in the direction of the arrows thereof.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a triangular frame formed according to thepresent invention without the bracing strip disposed thereon.

Fig. 5 is a modified form of frame where the bracing strip has beenprovided.

Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view taken on line 6-8 of Fig. 5 looking inthe direction of the arrows thereof.

Referring now to the "figures, l5 represents a wire frame formed bybending a. wire at two locations to provide corners l6 and ii. The endsof this bent wire are then joined together, as indicated at i8, andconnected by solder or the like.

.2 Claims. (C1. 2-268) Thereafter, a bracing strip I9 is extended acrossand connected to two sides, as indicated at 2| and 22. This connectionis effected by use of solder. The frame can be used either with orwithout the bracing strip IS. The bracing strip can also be bent alongwith the third or parallel side thereof, as shown more clearly in Fig.3. Extended over the wire frame is padding material 23 and over thispadding material, there are extended top and bottom covering surfaces 24and 25. These covering strips can be formed of one piece and the sametaken up, as indicated at 26, to shorten the width of the material onthe under side, as when the frame has been bent to conform to theshoulder. Around the front sid of the covering, there is extended a tapebinding 21. This binding will extend about the point, as indicated at2B, and

thence rearwardly therefrom to the rear end of the pad. The third sideof the triangle frame is bent upwardly in the center, as indicated at3|.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of myinvention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to theprecise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to allchanges and modifications coming within the scope of the invention asdefined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim as new and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A shoulder pad comprising a triangular shaped wire frame of threesides, one of said sides of the triangle being arched, padding materialextending over the same, a covering over the padding material and saidcovering secured along its side to enclose the padding and the frame, abrace extending between two sides of the frame and spaced forwardly ofthe arched side of the frame, said brace being arched similarly to thecurved side whereby the shoulder pad will better conform to the shoulderand a stronger frame will be provided.

2. A shoulder .pad having an approximately triangular shape andincluding an outer envelope fabric and padding material and providedwith an arched upper surface, and a triangular wire frame disposed inthe padding and having a base side disposed in approximately parallelrelation to the base side of the padding and envelope and formed with aV-shaped bend to arch the central portion of said base side to a pointcontiguous to the highest point on the arched padding and envelope withthe outer ends of said base side disposed near the bottom of the paddingand lower side of the envelope, the triangular wire frame having2,440,121 7 3 l a. cross time be: connecting oonverlinz sides of theirame and disposed in approximately parallel file of this pate 388,182

UNITED STATES PATENTS relation to the base side 01' the frame. 7 NumberName Date 145,861 Kym Dec. 18, 1873 SOLI- SCHWARTZ. 5 207.211 Scheu Aug.20, 1878 889,887 Byers Sept. 18, 1888 REFERENCES CITED 2.433.161 Zack!June 10, 194:!

FOREIGN PATENTS The following references are of 1'800l 'd in the Numbercountry Date Great Britain Dec, 1'7, 1931

